I was revisiting Ghost's Fishscale yesterday evening and I realized how vivid Ghost's story telling is. half of the album would make for several great short films.

Barbershop comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb6WQKq-sa8

what you got?

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I'm tryna be better off, not better than...

Someone actually did make a short of I Got a Story to Tell. Dude stuck to the script way to closely.

Revenge I'm tastin at the tip of my lips
I can't wait to fill my clip in his hips
Pass the chocolate Thai
Sing ain't lie
There's Jason with his back to me
Talkin to his faculty
I start to get a funny feeling
Put the mask on in case his niggas start squealin'
Scream his name out (Ay yo playboy!), squeezed six, nothin' shorter
Nigga turned around holdin' his daughter

That Biggie verse is cinematic as hell..

He had the knack for ending with a dope twist. Like the Niggas Bleed line about the car being towed as it's parked by the fire hydrant. Masterfully done!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS_bDnxCnkc


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson


"One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you're

"Put me onto heron blunts, sherm or something
Took a puff, what the fuck, I turned to punch him"

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I'm tryna be better off, not better than...

before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt4pxiU20-g

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almost unecessary cause he tells the story so well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dhlboTlFMg

shit so dark too.

a gangster coming home after his latest heist, finds his wife laying up in their bed with another man, he goes and gets his boy, they return to the home, kill sancho, gangster accidentally kills his lady, cops are on arrival, his boy takes the guns, and gangster shoots himself before the cops come into the door. sheesh

Right now I'm leaning toward Nas, but I'll revisit this as this post picks up.

Let my love slide in and never slip out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUr0fC16f-c

Word

Undying Love
Blaze a 50
Poppa was a Playa
The Setup
NYSOM Part 2

>NYSOM Part 2
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZSODfefzlE

from the way the piano loop drops after the familiar bass and drums, into how Nas just leads us into the hallway and holds us steady in his POV until the very end.

rap music.

that shit's pretty much criminal.

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"Where was the peace when we were getting shot? Where's the peace when we were getting laid out?
Where is the peace when we are in the back of ambulances? Where is the peace then?
They don't want to call for peace then.

whole album has lots of good moments

"3 o'clock watch the kids 3rd floor last door/you look paranoid that's why I can't jooks with you

Why... why you behind me leery, shakey dog stuttering/when you got the bigger cooker on you"


In other words, why you back there actin scary when you holdin the bigger gun???


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"Where was the peace when we were getting shot? Where's the peace when we were getting laid out?
Where is the peace when we are in the back of ambulances? Where is the peace then?
They don't want to call for peace then.

But actually don't.

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"Where was the peace when we were getting shot? Where's the peace when we were getting laid out?
Where is the peace when we are in the back of ambulances? Where is the peace then?
They don't want to call for peace then.

because that stalking cut is crazy

Just a day in a life of a playa named Quik

He sets the scene of a kid and his friends getting ready for a party (and the after effects) perfectly

I can't say the album is cinematic, but it would make for a great student or art film piecing together the story.

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closest thing to lyrics perfectly creating the experience of dreaming.

What the heck is a violent room?
What does taking a bath with pants on?

And yet, I know exactly what he is talking about.



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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson


"One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you're

I'm joking.

"Wazzzz wrong wit chuuuuuu???" CTFU!!!

Idiot
<----- ...I'm a peace-loving decoy
Ready for retaliation...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-gCUkxisxU

This one would have been a hit if it had a video.

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Both of them shits have vivid storytelling.

I know it sounds cheesy as hell, but I imagine GKMC as a Broadway show. Given Broadway's track record with anything related to hip hop, there's a 99% chance it would be wack. But I think think it would be interesting to see.

just so I could see that post about it come to life

that would be the scene I'd be waiting for

Millie pulled a pistol on santa

But it was based of a movie, so there's that.

http://www.reverbnation.com/thesmyrk/song/1851358-the-ballad-of-fletcher-reede

I'm listening to one of my stations and ya damn song came on!! I was like hold up?!? I downloaded it. Cool beans though, it's my jam now. Weakness is the name.

I never knew how music made it on those sites. I think pandora has it too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHaa_tPGmOs

Stranger in Moscow

epic short film.

https://youtu.be/AaAMJZNi5f4

that song really pulls u into the whole moment

if you don't think he's the best, he's at LEAST top five. ALLL of his early hits are stories

but y'all just care about his dj


well he's not the dj...he's the rapper



"If you wanna help us, fine. Sit down with your kids and make 'em study at night...otherwise, shoot THIS mothaf*cka!" (c) Morgan Freeman,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU2lZfcmwhQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q694ps2ZQJo








You don't impress me!!




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KRS ONE is imo the greatest storyteller that has come out of HipHop music and he has so many great songs that are so descriptive that it feels like you're right get there in the story witnessing it

"Love's Gonna get Cha"
"13 and Good"

But this song is one that I really visualized and it could easily be made into a short movie (plus, I had some Rasta bredrens who were living this reality lol)


"Can't Stop Won't Stop"

Open a de herb gate sellin pure ganja
Babylon come but they undercova
They never really want me stop sell ganja
(They just wanna take a cut of what you make so far!)
But I'm not havin it, I load the SLR
Pack the ganja BOOM! They break down the door
Pop-pop! T'ree shots, exchanged at close range
Out of three Babylon, me hit one in the brain
Pop-pop! Two shots hit da window pane
I exchanged four shots, I drop and feel pain
but I'm not hit, into the bathroom I crawl
I look out the window, it's a one story fall
I'm fallin, hit the ground and start crawlin
Soon I'm walkin 'round, blendin in with the crowd
Another day, I got away, I gotta fix this problem someday
But the very next day...


Can't stop, won't stop - sellin mad izm
All comeptition - I gots to get wit 'em
Me nah go jail and me nah go prison
(Take it to his face kid, diss him!)

I'm in another herb gate like a superstar
Eleven A.M., things are safe so far
I used to worry 'bout the competition on the block
But now the competition on the block is the cops
And even block watch doesn't know where we lay
Well.. ("Open up! It's the D.E.A.!")
Aww man, just when I went for more lead
The door opens up, I got a glock to my forehead
("Get down! Get on the floor!") I felt the stick, I thought I was dead
But I woke up instead in a cell layin on my bed
I lay back down, then I heard the crack sound
Two D.T.'s came in and laid they glocks down
One was whistlin a love song, as he put some gloves on
I thought to myself, damn something's wrong
Boom bap! Boom ba,p against my head
I fell back on the bed, down to his feet
The pain was insane but the hit was sweet
Cause these dumb-ass cops punched me right by the heat
The glock, two shots, three shots they screamin
Then someone said... ("Hey wake up kid, you're dreamin!")
I said, "Yo dreamin?! That nightmare was hell"
But as I look around, I was still in my cell
Damn, I got myself caught up in a jam
The D.T. that woke me up was like, WHAT?!
I wiped the saliva, off my mouth
The D.T. said.. ("Let's make a deal") No doubt!
No question, now we started up the session
No need for guessin, yes they want my supplier
I said, what makes you think there's anyone higher?
He said.. ("Don't be a God damned liar!")
You killed three D.T.'s yesterday, you heard me
But still the cops you knocked off yea was dirty
Now the whole investigation is federal
We want you to point out, the rest of the cops that are criminal
He continued to say, you can't think it through
This whole drug game is BIGGER than you!
Follow our plan man and you'll be free
Let me explain one thing so you can see, we



Now I'm back in the herb gate, all wired up
Constantly thinkin about bein tied up
Snap out of it - I'm thinkin, "Damn we like elves!
The federal and local cops got wars with themselves;
and I'm in the middle, and can't solve the riddle.
My nose is runny.." ("Let me get a 20!")
A 20 of the green or a 20 of the brown?
("Gimme the whole pound, clown, or duck down!")
God damn, God damn, here we go again
But this time I'm set up by my federal friend
Suddenly I hear.. ("Yo, move from the door!")
Followed by the shot sounded like a four-four
After the violence, then there was silence
Then I heard.. ("Hey yo it's us, open up the door!")
But rule number one in this game is self-reliance
So I pickd up the mini-mac in case they wanted more
The door opened up, the feds said WHATTUP?
They was stickin you up, so they had to get bucked
Suddenly a sense of trust came over me
I thought to myself, "Well soon I'll be free!"
But as I turned around, I heard the gun go click
I said wait, but it was too late -

Damn shame there wasn't a video for that song.

cube- a bird in the hand

ghostface verse on impossible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOYm3YkLWQ

souls of mischief - time stopped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-0SL-PpD_k

put it all together and its good enough to win a Oscar for short film and music.